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§ 404.1602. Definitions.
For purposes of this subpart:
Act means the Social Security Act, as amended.
Class or classes of cases means the categories into which disability claims are divided according to their characteristics.
Commissioner means the Commissioner of Social Security or his or her authorized designee.
Compassionate allowance means a determination or decision we make under a process that identifies for expedited handling claims that involve impairments that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments in appendix 1 to subpart P based on minimal, but sufficient, objective medical evidence.
Determination of disability or disability determination means one or more of the following decisions:
(a) Whether or not a person is under a disability;
(b) The date a person's disability began; or
(c) The date a person's disability ended.
Disability means disability or blindness as defined in sections 216(i) and 223 of the Act or as defined in title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, as amended.
Disability determination function means making determinations as to disability and carrying out related administrative and other responsibilities.
Disability program means, as appropriate, the Federal programs for providing disability insurance benefits under title II of the Act and disability benefits under title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, as amended.
Initial means the first level of disability adjudication.
Other written guidelines means written issuances such as Social Security Rulings and memoranda by the Commissioner of Social Security, the Deputy Commissioner for Programs and Policy, or the Associate Commissioner for Disability and the procedures, guides, and operating instructions in the Disability Insurance sections of the Program Operations Manual System, that are instructive, interpretive, clarifying, and/or administrative and not designated as advisory or discretionary. The purpose of including the foregoing material in the definition is to assure uniform national application of program standards and service delivery to the public.
Quick disability determination means an initial determination on a claim that we have identified as one that reflects a high degree of probability that you will be found disabled and where we expect that your allegations will be easily and quickly verified.
Regulations means regulations in this subpart issued under sections 205(a), 221 and 1102 of the Act, unless otherwise indicated.
State means any of the 50 States of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or Guam. It includes the State agency.
State agency means that agency of a State which has been designated by the State to carry out the disability determination function.
We, us, and our refers to the Social Security Administration (SSA).
[46 FR 29204, May 29, 1981, as amended at 56 FR 11018, Mar. 14, 1991; 62 FR 38452, July 18, 1997; 72 FR 51177, Sept. 6, 2007; 75 FR 62682, Oct. 13, 2010]


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- Home
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- Values & Mission Statements
Values & Mission Statements
Value Statement
We, the men and women of the York County Sheriff's Office, realize that we have been entrusted with providing the highest quality of service for the citizens of York County. We understand that we are a full service organization working together with the citizens to enhance the quality of life in York County. To accomplish these goals, we place the highest value on the following principles:We believe our primary duty is to protect the life and property of all citizens in York County.
We believe in developing and maintaining a partnership with the citizens of York County. Citizens and law enforcement should be partners working together through mutual involvement and cooperation to seek long-term solutions to the problems of crime.
We believe in maintaining the highest standards of professionalism. By providing full service law enforcement based on integrity and accountability, we seek the trust and confidence of those we serve.
We believe in equality based on the principles of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Mutual respect between the York County Sheriff's Office and the citizens of York County is based on these principles.
These are our highest values. We commit ourselves to these principles and we will strive to achieve each of them in the performance of our assigned duties.
Mission Statement
It shall be the mission of the York County Sheriff's Office to provide for the safety and protection of the citizens and businesses of York County through proven full service law enforcement practices, including both reactive and proactive responses to criminal activity, to ensure that public interests and constitutionally guaranteed liberties are protected and that the judicial process is followed according to law. York County Sheriff's Office personnel shall achieve this mission by maintaining a high level of work ethics, integrity and ethical standards in the performance of their duty. In order to fulfill this mission the York County Sheriff's Office shall:- Enforce all applicable laws and ordinances
- Protect and promote the quality of life in York County
- Promote effective crime prevention practices
- Investigate all criminal activity
- Identify and arrest those suspected of criminal activity
- Provide advocacy and assistance to the victims of crime
- Incarcerate and secure those suspected and convicted of crime
- Preserve and protect the judicial process
- Provide effective service of warrants and civil process
- Enforce all traffic laws and provide proactive traffic solutions
- Render aid and assistance to all citizens in the time of crisis
- Provide appropriate public information to all parties
- Maintain a highly trained and qualified staff
- Maintain the highest standards of ethics and integrity

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APPLEBY, CHARLES, farmer; b. 25 Dec. 1866 in Jamaica; d. unmarried 12 March 1929 in Essondale (Port Coquitlam), B.C.
Of African descent, Charles Appleby immigrated to Canada in 1896, according to census records. After living for a time in British Columbia's lower mainland, he moved to Salt Spring Island, near the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the second largest of the Gulf Islands. He would reside there for more than 20 years, eking out an impoverished existence as a market gardener and farmer.
British Columbia's first black immigrants had arrived from San Francisco in 1858, part of the diverse population drawn by the Fraser River gold rush [see Mifflin Wistar Gibbs*]. Many also sought freedom from California's racially restrictive laws. Black settlers came to Salt Spring in 1859. Rich with game and good farming areas, it was part of the unsurveyed region opened by Governor James Douglas* in response to complaints about high land prices [see Joseph Despard Pemberton*]. On 26 July 1859, 29 settlers of different nationalities were given permission to pre-empt land on the island. The next day, black settlers Armstead Buckner, Abraham Copeland, and William Robinson were part of the initial group to set off for Salt Spring. Other blacks would follow, to brave the often perilous and isolated circumstances to create homes. Several would become involved in local civic and provincial affairs. By the end of the century a number of these early black settlers had left the island, some because of racial tensions and some because the end of the Civil War had made a return to the United States attractive. Others had relocated to explore economic opportunities elsewhere, and some had died. Descendants of several pioneer black families were still there, however, when Charles Appleby joined the community in 1896.
A photograph taken of Appleby around 1910 shows a thin, wiry man with greying hair and a pipe; in his forties, he looks over sixty. According to some islanders, he was a slightly mad but harmless person who possessed the gift of second sight. Leonard Tolson states in his memoirs that Appleby predicted the sinking of the steamship Iroquois, which on 10 April 1911 set out from Sidney, B.C., for the Gulf Islands, filled with freight and approximately 40 passengers. Less than a mile out, it encountered rough seas, some of the cargo shifted, and the ship sank with the loss of at least 21 lives. Tolson recalled that before the disaster Appleby had "stumbled up to a group of men, weeping and hysterical, and told them that he had just seen the Iroquois sinking and many people drowning. The men did not take this too seriously, knowing that his mind was unhinged."
Appleby lived on Salt Spring for almost ten more years, evidently with continuing problems. On 6 April 1921 he was admitted to the Provincial Hospital for the Insane at Essondale. Its intake file stated that "this patient's mental condition is such that no reliable family or personal history could be obtained from him. He will never give the same answer twice in succession." His physical examination found him to be 5 feet 6½ inches, 118 pounds, poorly nourished, and "showing marked advanced changes of senility." He had been committed by Dr Eva Maud Sutherland of Ganges Harbour on Salt Spring, whom he had told, among other stories, that he was the son of Queen Elizabeth I and that he had once gone out to catch his neighbour's horse, which was full of jewels. Appleby was not a source of trouble, except, as Sutherland and the provincial constable on Salt Spring noted, when he swore and was abusive towards children who teased him. He never left the asylum, and died in its farm annex.
BCA, GR-2880, 90, file 6815; GR-2951, no.1929-09-424334 (mfm.).— NA, RG 31, C1, 1901, New Westminster, B.C., div.2: 35.— Salt Spring Island Hist. Soc. Arch. (Salt Spring Island, B.C.), Toynbee Coll. (photographs).— Bea Hamilton, Salt Spring Island (Vancouver, 1969). Snapshots of early Salt Spring and other favoured islands, comp. R. M. Toynbee (Ganges, B.C., 1978), 56.
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I had very simple requirements for the zoom and pan style animations. I wanted the animations to work by zooming from element to element based on the presence of a data- attribute (indicating step 1, step 2 . . . step N).

Zooming to Elements

Random words

Vertical words

I also wanted the animations to rotate the viewport to match the rotation of a zoomed element. To see the final product, you can watch the following clip:
I thought my requirements were simple, but it's always the simple requirements that sneak up on you...
To make a long story a bit shorter, there are several things I learned in trying to hack out my own zoom and pan features.
1. getBoundingClientRect, part of the CSSOM View Model, is particularly useful for finding the precise boundaries of any given element.
2. Also useful is window.getComputedStyle, because getComputedStyle can give back a CSS transformation matrix which is easier to manipulate than the long-winded form of a CSS transform. In other words, given the following CSS . . .
#target { -webkit-transform: rotateZ(10deg) scale(0.8) translateX(10px); }
. . . then the following code . . .
var styles = window.getComputedStyle(target); var transform = styles["-webkit-transform"];
. . . will give you a value in transform like [1]:
"matrix(0.7878, 0.1389, -0.1389, 0.7878, 7.8784, 1.389)"
From there you'd think everything is just multiplication and addition [2], but by the time you factor in the vendor prefixes, scroll offsets, aesthetic padding and easing, and how coordinates change as the viewport transforms, then the edge cases cut like knives.
Zoomooz is an incredibly easy to use jQuery plugin for zooming to any element on a page. Once I found Zoomooz I turned over all responsibility for zooming, panning, and rotating to the library and focused on shimming it into my slideshow framework. After spending a few hours fiddling with stuff in the above section, the following code took 10 minutes or so.
var zoom = function (element) { var target = element; var signal = completionSignal(); var zoomables = _.sortBy( target.children("[data-zoom-step]"), function (child) { return -($(child).data().zoomStep); } ); var step = function () { var child = $(zoomables.pop()); if (child.length > 0) { child.zoomTo(child.data()); } else { signal.resolve(); } }; var reset = function () { $("body").zoomTo({ targetsize: 1.0 }); }; signal.promise.always(reset); return { step: step, done: signal.promise }; };
The code plugs into the animation infrastructure described in part 8. During initialization the code finds all the data-zoom-step elements and orders them into an array using Underscore. The zoomTo method is provided by Zoomooz.js. The code also uses the completion signal handler (also discussed in part 8) to register clean up code and announce when all zoomable elements have been visited and the animation is complete.
Although this isn't everything needed to pull off the animations, you can find all the source code on github.
Next up: pretty printing code.
[1] Least significant digits removed.
[2] Also see Sylvester.


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For the second consecutive month, TBS won the ratings race with young adults, ranking as basic cable's #1 network in primetime delivery of adults 18-34 and adults 18-49. TBS also won those demos for the final week of February.
The TBS original comedy Cougar Town took in 2.6 million viewers in Live + 3 delivery with last Tuesday's episode, with 1.7 million adults 18-49 and 732,000 adults 18-34. Meanwhile, the show's Feb. 5 episode has grown to a final tally of 2.9 million viewers in Live + 7, with 1.9 million adults 18-49 and 896,000 adults 18-34.
TBS's hit competition series King of the Nerds drew 1.3 million viewers and 932,000 adults 18-49 in Live + 3 for its sixth episode. Its delivery of adults 18-34 (564,000) grew by +13% over the prior week's episode. The latest installment of King of the Nerds also scored the show's youngest median age so far this season: 32.
Telecasts of The Big Bang Theory averaged a hefty 3 million viewers in February, making it basic cable's #1 off-net series. It was also tops for the month in delivery of adults 18-49 (1.6 million) and adults 18-34 (767,000).
TBS's late-night series CONAN scored growth for the third week in a row, averaging 857,000 total viewers in Live + Same Day (+4% over the prior week) and 556,000 adults 18-49 (+5%). CONAN also drew 320,000 adults 18-34 (+14%).
Adult Swim
Adult Swim's Total Day performance in February 2013 ranked #1 among adults 18-24, 18-34 & 18-49 and men 18-24, 18-34, & 18-49 on basic cable. Compared to February 2012, Total day delivery grew with adults 18-24 by 3%, adults 18-34 by 7%, adults 18-49 by 8%, men 18-24 by 7%, men 18-34 by 11% and men 18-49 by 10%.
Adult Swim ranked #2 in Prime Time on basic cable for delivery of adults 18-34. Compared to February 2012, Prime delivery increased with adults 18-24 by 8%, adults 18-34 by 14%, adults 18-49 by 13%, men 18-24 by 10%, men 18-34 by 13% and men 18-49 by 7%.
New episodes of Robot Chicken (Sunday, 12 a.m.) ranked #1 in its time period throughout February, with all adults 18-24, 18-34 and 18-49 and men 18-34, growing by double and triple digits across the board vs. the same time period last year.
Adult Swim's newest original series, Newsreaders (Thursday, 12 a.m.) grew among adults 18-34/18-49 and men 18-34/18-49 vs. last year's time period.
Across February 2013, Adult Swim programming accounted for 18 of the top 50 telecasts on basic cable for the week with adults 18-34 and men 18-34, both more than any other network.
TNT scored solid growth in total day for February while also ranking as basic cable's #1 network in total day delivery of adults 25-54. For the month, TNT's deliveries increased by +5% among total viewers compared to February 2012, +4% among adults 25-54 and +5% among adults 18-49.
The Feb. 18 episode of TNT's hit drama Dallas drew 3.2 million viewers in Live + 3 delivery, up 3% compared to the prior week's episode. In the demos, Dallas drew more than 1.3 million adults 25-54 and 1.1 million adults 18-49.
Wednesday night's episode of the TNT original drama series Southland garnered 1.8 viewers in Live + 3, a +2% increase compared to the prior week's episode. In the demos, the latest installment of Southland garnered 936,000 adults 25-54 in Live + 3 (+4% vs. the prior week). Live + 7 deliveries for Southland's Feb. 13 season premiere will be available next week.
Cartoon Network
Across February 2013, Cartoon Network ranked as basic cable's #1 network for Early Prime (7-9 p.m.) delivery of boys 6-11 & 9-14, and #1 in Total Day delivery of boys 9-14.
Cartoon Network was television's #1 destination for all boy demos (all TV) on Monday Night (7-9 p.m.), while #1 with boys 6-11/9-14 on Tuesday Night (7-9 p.m.), and #1 with boys 2-11/6-11 on Wednesday and Thursday Night.
Among the network's original programming, all-new episodes of Adventure Time (Monday, 7:30 p.m.) and Regular Show (8 p.m.) were #1 in their respective time periods with kids 9-14 and boys 6-11/9-14.
The Amazing World of Gumball (Tuesday, 7p.m.) ranked as the #1 program on Tuesdays with boys 6-11, while #1 in its timeslot among boys 6-11/9-14. Additionally, the finale episode of Level Up (8 p.m.) was #1 in its timeslot with boys 6-11.
The new live-action comedy series Incredible Crew (Thursday, 8 p.m.) ranked #1 in its timeslot with boys 6-11 on all TV and boys 9-14 on basic cable.
Saturday Morning premieres of Beyblade: Metal Fury, Pokemon BW: Adventures in Unova, Ben 10: Omniverse and Star Wars: The Clone Wars ranked #1 in their respective time periods among boys 9-14. Ben 10: Omniverse and Star Wars: The Clone Wars grew by mostly double-digits across key kids and boys vs. the same time period last year.
truTV has scored its youngest February ever, with a prime median age of 41, a year younger than last February. And while truTV keeps getting younger, several of the network's direct non-fiction competitors are getting older, including Discovery (which grew from 45 to 46 vs. last February), History (47 to 52), Spike (41 to 43), TLC (42 to 43), Bravo (41 to 43) and Syfy (46 to 47).
truTV ranked as one of basic cable's Top 10 entertainment networks in primetime delivery of its target demo: men 18-49.
Hardcore Pawn (Tuesdays at 9 p.m.) had a record setting month, with its Feb. 5 season finale delivering more than 3.9 million viewers, the biggest audience ever for the network. For the month, Hardcore Pawn ranked as basic cable's #1 program in its time period with total viewers (3.7 million) and men 18-49 (952,000). It also ranked as the #2 program in its timeslot with adults 18-49 (1.8 million), trailing only sister network TBS. And it was among the Top 5 programs in the timeslot with adults 18-34 (754,000) and men 18-34 (387,000).
Lizard Lick Towing (Mondays at 10 p.m.) ranked among basic cable's Top 5 programs in its timeslot across the board, averaging 2.6 million viewers, 1.5 million adults 18-49 and 792,000 men 18-49. It was also a Top 5 finisher with the younger set, averaging 699,000 adults 18-34 and 362,000 men 18-34.
Impractical Jokers (Thursdays at 10 p.m.) scored a Top 5 ranking among basic cable programs in its timeslot, drawing more than 2.1 million viewers; 1.3 million adults 18-49; 723,000 men 18-49; 706,000 adults 18-34; and 376,000 men 18-34.?The hilarious hit show scored a remarkably young median age of only 33 in February.
Full Throttle Saloon (Wednesdays at 9 p.m.) attracted 1.7 million viewers, more than 1 million adults18-49 and 596,000 men 18-49 in February, with Top 5 basic cable rankings for the timeslot with the network's key demos.
truTV's new hit Guinness World Records(R) Gone Wild! (Thursdays at 8 p.m.) averaged 1.3 million viewers in February, with 734,000 adults 18-49 and 406,000 men 18-49, with double-digit timeslot growth across the board. The show also yielded a median age of 36, four years younger than the same time period a year ago.
Last week, truTV launched its newest series, Upload with Shaquille O'Neal, which turned in a solid performance with 1.3 million viewers, 872,000 adults 18-49 and 455,000 men 18-49.
NBA TV's special programming block on Monday, Feb. 18, with original content featuring NBA legends Michael Jordan, Bill Russell and Charles Barkley, averaged 348,000 total viewers to become the network's most-watched primetime telecast window ever (excluding evenings with live game telecasts). Additionally, the programming lineup was NBA TV's most-watched Monday across the entire day (excluding days with live game telecasts).
One on One with Ahmad Rashad: Michael Jordan at 8 p.m. (ET) was the network's most-watched telecast of the day, with an average of 416,000 total viewers. Original content also included Mr. Russell's House at 9 p.m. and Sir Charles at 50 at 10 p.m.
From Friday through Monday (Feb. 15-18), NBA TV delivered the network's most-watched NBA All-Star coverage, with an average of 101,000 viewers across total day.
NBA TV's 16 NBA Fan Night presented by Sprint telecasts this season are averaging 480,000 total viewers, up 5% compared to last season (455,000 total viewers for 22 telecasts).


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New inkjet printer spits out cheap OLED monitors better than your inkjet prints letters
Imagine reinstalling the drivers for THAT
In a presentation at the Printed Electronics USA 2013 Conference in California, local startup Kateeva has shown off a new method of producing OLED screens that it claims will last twice as long as current models and be much cheaper to manufacture in bulk.
Don't ask how much the toner costs...
OLED display manufacturing is a very tricky process using today's techniques. The screens are produced in a near vacuum to induce thermal evaporation and stop impurities damaging the light-emitting diodes, then the substrate is masked and the screen's surface is applied. But error rates are still high and the complicated process makes OLED's phenomenally expensive: LG wants $13,500 for its 55-inch telly, and that's a tough sell for most pockets.
Kateeva has spent the last five years (and a fair amount of venture capitalist cash) trying a different route. Its CTO is Steven Van Slyke, who with his Kodak boss Dr Ching Tang invented the first basic OLED screen, thinks the company has cracked a different manufacturing method using inkjet printers to lay out new OLEDs.
Inkjet printing of OLED screens isn't new – Epson's been working on it for years - but no-one's using it in volume. Kateeva's system, dubbed YIELDjet, uses a combination of highly focused ink nozzles, purpose-built inks, and a totally sealed nitrogen manufacturing chamber to slash the costs of production and increase the lifespan of the finished screen.
The nitrogen chamber is completely enclosed during manufacturing and has less than one part per million of oxygen or water contamination. The company says it has borrowed from the semiconductor industry to cut the amount of contaminants tenfold on alternative manufacturing techniques. This doubles the lifespan of the screens, it claims, and slashes production costs.
The company develops its own OLED inks and the print head lays down the screen's components using precisely engineered nozzles, controlled by software that ensures a smooth deposit. Kateeva has five prototype systems in operation, producing screens up to 15-inches wide, and is building a larger unit capable of building 55-inch screens.
"YIELDjet was inspired by a simple vision: help display manufacturers realize the full potential of OLED technology so that their customers can enjoy and benefit from these dazzling new displays," said co-founder Dr Conor Madigan, in an announced.
"YIELDjet delivers by using inkjet printing to crack difficult technical problems that made manufacturing flexible and large-size OLEDs challenging and costly." ®


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The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
Rural Montana in 1909 is the central character in this humorous novel of life on the prairie. Change moves in with a widow from Minneapolis.The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
In McCarthy's unrelenting tale, a father and son struggle to survive on their journey through the deadly, rempty winter of a postapocalyptic America.Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel [741.5 Bec] Bechdel's memoir, done in graphic-novel form, masterfully illustrated her relationship with her closeted homosexual father.There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene [362.73 Gre] The scope of the AIDS epidemic is illustrated through the heartwarming story of Haregewoin Teferra, a humanitarian who runs an orphanage in Ethiopia.Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
by Peter Hessler [951.06 Hes] An American journalist compellingly contrasts China's past, as revealed through ancient artifacts, with the fiercely competitive spirit of the new generation.
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
by Judy Fong Bates
In this deeply moving coming-of-age story, a young Chinese girl and her family struggle to adapt to life in a small Ontario community.Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
A small-town Iowa minister weaves together issues of conscience and commitment with family secrets in a rich tapestry of American life.A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
by Anonymous [940.534 Ano] This disturbing diary, written after the fall of Berlin, recalls the mass rape perpetrated by Russian forces and the harrowing choices a woman had to make to survive.Shockwave: Count-down to Hiroshima
by Stephen Walker [940.542 Wal] History is brought dramatically alive in this moment-by-moment account of the events immediately surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima.


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He wanted to start a race war.
That, you will recall, was what authorities say white supremacist Dylann Roof had in mind when he shot up a storied African-American church in June. It might have surprised him to learn that we've already had a race war.
No, that's not how one typically thinks of World War II, but it takes only a cursory consideration of that war's causes and effects to make the case. Germany killed 6 million Jews and rampaged through Poland and the Soviet Union because it considered Jews and Slavs subhuman. The Japanese stormed through China and other Asian outposts in the conviction that they were a superior people and that Americans, as a decadent and mongrel people, could do nothing about it.
Meantime, this country was busy imprisoning 120,000 of its citizens of Japanese ancestry in concentration camps and plunging into a war against racial hatred with a Jim Crow military. The American war effort was undermined repeatedly by race riots — whites attacking blacks at a shipyard in Mobile, white servicemen beating up Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles, to name two examples.
So no, it is not a stretch to call that war a race war.
It ended on August 15, 1945. V-J — Victory over Japan — Day was when the surrender was announced, the day of blissfully drunken revelry from Times Square in New York to Market Street in San Francisco. But for all practical purposes, the war had actually ended nine days before — 70 years ago Thursday — in a noiseless flash of light over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. One person who survived — as least 60,000 people would not — described it as a "sheet of sun."
The destruction of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb — Nagasaki followed three days later — did not just end the war. It also ushered in a new era: the nuclear age. To those of us who were children then, nuclear power was what turned Peter Parker into a human spider and that lizard into Godzilla.
It was also what air-raid sirens were screaming about when the teacher told you to get down under your desk, hands clasped behind your neck. We called them "drop drills." No one ever explained to us how putting an inch of laminated particle board between you and a nuclear explosion might save you. None of us ever thought to ask. We simply accepted it, went to school alongside this most terrifying legacy of the great race war, and thought nothing of it.
The world has seen plenty of race wars — meaning tribalistic violence — before and since 1945. Ask the Armenians, the Tutsis, the Darfurians. Ask the Congolese, the Cambodians, the Herero. Ask the Cherokee. The childish urge of the human species to divide itself and destroy itself has splashed oceans of blood across the history of the world.
The difference 70 years ago was the scope of the thing — and that spectacular ending. For the first time, our species now had the ability to destroy itself. We were still driven by the same childish urge. Only now, we were children playing with matches.
This is the fearsome reality that has shadowed my generation down seven decades, from schoolchildren doing drop drills to grandparents watching grandchildren play in the park. And the idea that we might someday forge peace among the warring factions of the planet, find a way to help our kind overcome tribal hatred before it's too late, has perhaps come to seem idealistic, visionary, naïve, a tired '60s holdover, a song John Lennon once sang that's nice to listen to but not at all realistic.
Maybe it's all those things.
Though 70 years after a flash of soundless light blasted away 60,000 lives, you have to wonder what better options we've got. But then, I'm biased.
You see, I have grandchildren playing in the park.
(Leonard Pitts is a columnist for The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, FL, 33132. Readers may contact him via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
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Way to go team!
Let's move on to the challenge...
Wow, take a look at those colors! Beautiful!
The twist? Use a WHITE background.
This challenge runs from
2/28/13 through 3/14/13
Oh, and let's not forget about this month's fabulous prize!
The Beary Scrap has generously given a $20 GC to their store. We will randomly draw a name from the February participants. And remember, the more you play, the more chances you have to win.


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Are you considering a bible study curriculum for your kids? How about a bible study that everyone can do together, no matter how young or old they are? Then you might check into the Bible Study Guide for All Ages.
We were recently sent several of their products to review in our home:
- Beginner (3-K)
- Intermediate (3rd & 4th grade)
- Advanced (5th & 6th grade)
- Beginner Timeline
- Bible Book Summary Cards
- Advanced Teacher Key
- Wall Maps and Timeline set (book of lables provided)
The Bible Study Guide for All Ages has products for all ages and they can be used with any version of the bible. There are several levels to choose from and each level covers the same lesson at a deeper (higher skill) level depending on age and skill level of the learner. There are levels for Teens and Parents/Adults, and a Primary (1st and 2nd grade) level too. However, I am only sharing today about the three levels (Lessons 1-26 of Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced) and the cards, maps, and timelines that we looked over for the purpose of this review.
Beginner Student Pages (3-K)
The Beginner Level includes several activities for young learners.
- Coloring
- Listening
- Memory Work
- Review
- Introductory Learning Activities
The Beginner Student Pages set includes a workbook with 26 one-page lessons (front and back). You can easily tear off each page as needed or leave them in the book to be completed. This is a large book with legal size 8.5" x 14" pages. These books are consumables and so each student needs their own book.
Beginner Timeline:
Time Line helps students understand the chronology of the Bible. The Beginner Time Line (for ages 3-K) is 34 full-color, 8.5″ x 11″ pictures on sturdy card stock with one question about each picture. The visual aid teaches young students one simple fact about major people and events in the Bible. It also teaches them the order in which those people and events appear in the Bible.
Intermediate Student Pages (3rd & 4th grade)
The Intermediate Level contains lots of skills and activities including:
- Memory work
- Review
- Bible story/text
- Time line
- Map drills
- Application activities
The Student Pages of interactive activities follows the same format for each lesson. The kids will see the same headings that reinforce the learning pattern as they work through each lesson:
- Remember It? (review of previous lesson)
- Memory Workout
- Guess What
- Timeline
- Get Active
- Apply It
The Intermediate Student Pages set is constructed the same as the Beginner Level. This workbook includes 26 one-page lessons (front and back) and you can complete them in the book or remove them one lesson at a time as needed. The pages are 8.5" x 14" (legal size). These are consumable workbooks and each student needs their own book.
Advanced Student Pages (5th & 6th grade)
The Advanced Level contains lots of activities like the Intermediate Level, but just at a more in-depth understanding.
The Student Pages format for the Advanced Level is:
- Remember It? (quick review of previous lesson)
- Memory Workout
- Guess What
- Timeline
- Apply It
- Get Active
The Advanced Student Pages sets is a workbook of lessons and activities that includes 26 one-page lessons (front and back). The pages are lightly glue-bound in the binding and you can complete them in the book or easily tear off each page if desired. The size of each page is 8.5" x 14" (legal size). These are consumable workbooks and each student will need their own book.
Teacher Key (Contains Advanced, Intermediate, and Beginner Level Guide and Answer Keys):
The Advanced Teacher Key has all the answers to each of the lessons for the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels, instructions and tips for using the Unlabeled Wall Maps and Time Line and additional background information.
It is not required to purchase the Teacher Key for using the Student Pages sets, but it is very helpful to the parent, and it is recommended when using with groups.
Bible Book Summary Cards
This video explains more about how to use the Bible Book Summary Cards along with the bible study lessons.
Wall Maps and Timeline Set (Unlabeled)
The Wall Maps and Timeline set includes a timeline, three maps, and a book that contains the labels and figures for you and your students to cut out and apply to the timeline and the maps during specific lessons.
The size of the time line is 76″ x 25″.
The sizes of the maps are 38″ x 25″, 19″ x 25″ and 19″ x 25″.
Check out this video "Teaching Our Kids" by the Bible Study Guide for All Ages:
Check out this video Introduction called "Intro To The Bible Study Guide" by the Bible Study Guide For All Ages:
Scripture Lessons
4 Years of Bible study lessons covered in Bible Study Guide For All Ages:
UNIT 1 (lessons 1 to 104)
1-14 Joseph (Genesis 37-50)
15-20 Daniel
21-36 Jesus' early life & 1st year of ministry (Mt 1:4-11, Mk 1:3-19, Lk 1:5-11, Jn 1-5)
37-41 Adam (Genesis 1-5)
42-45 Noah (Genesis 6-10)
46-48 Job
50-68 Moses (Exodus 1-20)
69-84 Joshua
86-104 Jesus' last week (Mt 21:28-26:16, 57-75; Mk 11; 12:41-44; 14:12-52; Lk 22:24-30; Jn 11:55-17:26; 18:12-14)
UNIT 2 (lessons 105 to 208)
105-111 Jesus' crucifixion, burial, resurrection, & ascension
112-119 Peter, Stephen, Philip (Acts 1-8)
121-130 Abraham (Genesis 11-24)
134-139 Jacob (Genesis 28-36)
141-162 David (2 Samuel 1-24; 1 Chronicles 22-29; Psalm 139, 23, 51)
163-174 Solomon (1 Kings 1-11, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs)
175-178 Ahijah (1 Kings 12-16)
179-186 Elijah (1 Kings 17 – 2 Kings 2)
188-192 James
193-199 1 & 2 Peter
200-205 1 & 2 & 3 John, Jude
206-208 Revelation
UNIT 3 (lessons 209 to 312)
210-231 Moses (Exodus 21 –> Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)
232-238 Hebrews
240-254 Jesus' 2nd year of ministry (Mt 5-7; 8:18-22; 9:10-34; 12:22-50; 13:24-53; Mk 4:1-29; 6; Lk 7:1-8:3; 8:22-39; 11:37-13:9;
Jn 6:22-71)
256-260 Peter (Acts 9-12)
261-269 Paul (Acts 13-18:22, 1 & 2 Thessalonians)
271-288 Judges
289-292 Ruth
293-297 Samuel (1 Samuel 1-9)
298-312 Saul (1 Samuel 10-31)
UNIT 4 (lessons 313-416)
314-333 Jesus' 3rd year of ministry (Mt 17-19; Mk 7-8; 10:32-52; Lk 10:1-11:13; 13:10-19:28; Jn 7-11)
335-384 Paul's 3rd journey (Acts 18:23-28:31)
336-343 1 Corinthians
345-350 2 Corinthians
351-353 Galatians
354-361 Romans
371 Philemon
372-373 Colossians
374-376 Ephesians
377-378 Philippians
379-381 1 Timothy
382 Titus
383-384 2 Timothy
386-416 Elisha, Divided and Conquered Kingdoms: 2 Kings,
2 Chronicles
391 Obadiah
394 Joel
396-397 Jonah
398 Amos & Hosea
401 Isaiah & Micah
403 Zephaniah & Nahum
404 Habakkak & Jeremiah
405 Lamentations & Ezekiel
406-407 Ezra 1-6
408 Haggai & Zechariah
409-411 Esther
412 Ezra 7-10
413-416 Nehemiah
416 Malachi
Check out this video of the Intermediate Level in action.
Our Experience Using the Bible Study Guide for all Ages
We were sent the first 26 lessons (of 416 lessons) for the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels, Advanced Teachers Key, plus the Beginners Timeline, Bible Book Summary Cards, and the unlabeled Wall Maps and Timeline sets.
The Beginner's level was just the right level for my youngest son. In the pictures below are examples of his progress on lessons 1 and lesson 2 as we studied about the life of Joseph in the bible. Fourteen of the twenty six lessons focus on the life of Joseph. One of our boy's name is also Joseph and he has several brothers (and one sister) so they could identify with having lots of siblings. All of the kids enjoyed learning with this bible study.
In the Beginner's level, there is a page to color on the front of the lesson while he listens to the bible scripture and answers a few questions, and also a CD with songs is also recommended to help memorize the scripture, but it was not sent to us for review. The back side of this page has a few steps to complete at this level to help reinforce the learning.
Each step and task is numbered.
My 9 year old really enjoyed using the Intermediate level too. There are bible verses to look up, and instructions to follow including a few small things to color and lots of fun tasks to complete. Each of the tasks are numbered and for the most part he was able to complete them independently while I helped his younger brother.
For the Advanced level, there is more writing and tasks to be completed than at the Intermediate level. Below you can see the work my kids completed in all three levels from Lesson 1 side by side. You can see how each student workbook covers the same information, but at different skill levels.
Hanging the Timelines and Wall Maps:
Best to take some measurements, as these resources take up a lot of wall space. They suggest if you don't have the wall space, to place them on sheets of cardboard that can be easily set up and taken down and stored as needed. There are smaller timelines included in the student pages too.
Label Book:
The Maps and Timelines are constantly a work in progress depending on what you are learning about in the lessons. You will move things around and add more lables on as you go.
Final Thoughts
We have enjoyed using these bible study materials in our home. They are cartoon like, so they appealed to our younger kids, especially my six and nine year old sons. However using cartoon characters with bible study may or may not appeal to everyone. Also the size of the pages is a little awkward for storage on a book shelf or binder because they are 14 inches long. So far, I have just been storing them flat in a box with all the bible study materials we need at the same time, but I do hope to find a better system for storing them. I do like the addition of the interactive wall maps and timeline activities and feel these have enhanced our bible learning.
If you are looking for an interactive bible study for your whole family (or coops or church groups), then stop over at Bible Study Guide For All Ages and see if they have what you are looking for and the resources to meet your needs.
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Homeschool Review Crew
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Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts.
Obama's decision grew out of a desire to share in the sacrifice that government employees are making, a White House official said Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of workers could be forced to take unpaid leave — known as furloughs — if Congress does not reach an agreement soon to undo the cuts.
The president is demonstrating that he will be paying a price, too, as the White House warns of dire economic consequences from the $85 billion in cuts — called a sequester — that started to hit federal programs last month after Congress failed to stop them. In the weeks since, the administration has faced repeated questions about how the White House itself will be affected. The cancelation of White House tours in particular has drawn mixed reactions.


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Our diagnosis attempts to reveal whether large-scale conditions may have become more favorable for violent storms to occur over the lower Mississippi Valley, the region of the recent super tornado outbreak. Various data sets are used to estimate the time variability in column precipitable water (Fig. 1, top 2 panels). These are found to be in close agreement with each other with respect to their interannual variability; the water vapor time series are dominated by strong year-to-year variations both over the Gulf of Mexico (top) source region and over the lower Mississippi Valley impact region of possible tornadic activity (second panel). A similar interpretation applies to a time series of thermodynamic stability (based on the index of convective available potential energy, CAPE) which as might be expected, varies coherently with the atmospheric water vapor content (third panel). Finally, the vector wind shear magnitude for the surface-500mb layer is also dominated by interannual variability, with little evidence for a trend during the 30-yr period (lower panel).The non-technical bottom line?
Neither the time series of thermodynamic nor dynamic variables suggests the presence of a discernable trend during April; any small trend that may exist would be statistically insignificant relative to the intensity of yearly fluctuations. A change in the mean climate properties that are believed to be particularly relevant to severe storms has thus not been detected for April, at least during the last 30 years. Barring a detection of change, a claim of attribution (to human impacts) is thus problematic, although it does not exclude that a future change in such environmental conditions may occur as anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing increases.
There is at present no indication that the environmental factors conducive to tornado development for this location and time have change over the last 30 years, meaning that no change has been detected. Absent detection, there is no attribution. As NOAA says, maybe there will be one day, but not yet.


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Chrysler Recalling 919,000 SUVs Worldwide
By PanARMENIAN
Chrysler is recalling more than 919,000 older-model Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs worldwide because the air bags can inflate while people are driving them, AP reported.
The recall affects Grand Cherokees from the 2002 through 2004 model years and Libertys from model years 2002 and 2003, according to documents posted Friday, November 9 on the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website.
The safety agency said that a part can fail in the air bag control computer, and the front and side air bags can inflate while the SUVs are being driven. An agency investigation started last year found that the air bags went off 215 times, causing 81 minor injuries. No crashes were reported, but NHTSA said the problem could cause a wreck.
Chrysler, which makes Jeeps, will install an electrical filter free of charge to fix the problem. The company will begin notifying owners of the recall in January.
The recall includes nearly 775,000 SUVs in the U.S., 49,000 in Canada and 22,000 in Mexico. The rest are outside North America.
Dashboard warning lights normally come on before the air bags are inflated, Chrysler spokesman Eric Mayne said. If that happens, the driver should contact a Jeep dealer.
The problem happens in less than three-hundredths of a percent of the vehicles on the road, Mayne said.
NHTSA began investigating the air bags in October of last year after getting complaints about air bags inflating for no reason in Jeep Libertys. Investigators traced the cause to electrical stress on one of two circuits in the control computer. The problem also causes the seat belts to tighten as if a collision were about to happen.
The Grand Cherokees covered by the recall were built from Aug. 1, 2001 to May 16, 2003, while the Libertys were built from June 6, 2001 to March 19, 2003.


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Custom Painting! Although photos are optional, we offer custom painting as a standard feature on all KSM mounts. You can send us images by email or by U.S. mail. Photos are used not only for coloration, but also to identify specific markings. The number and location of spots on a redfish are one of many examples.
Our skilled artists often find unique characteristics in nearly every image which are later reflected in the completed painting. This is why no two mounts are ever exactly alike.
If you prefer not to provide photos, we will then refer to our own collection of colorful reference photos–using images of fish taken in the same geographical location. With or without specific photos, the same care and skill will be used in painting your mount.
High performance airbrushes in the hands of talented artists using advanced techniques equals the brilliance found only in a "lit-up" fish.
Eyes that look Alive! The single most important feature on any fish mount is the appearance of the eye. A little bit of extra care during the installation can make a huge difference in the way the mount turns out. At KSM, we install our eyes in a slightly downward angle. On billfish, we go even more extreme. Notice how the pupil is recessed in the eye socket.
Acrylic Teeth! KSM teeth are reproduced using dental acrylics and are cast in rubber molds. Since real teeth were originally used to make the rubber molds, the accuracy is 100 percent anatomically correct. This acrylic material is very strong and, in fact, is exactly the same material as dentists use.
First Generation Molds! All KSM fish mounts are cast from first generation fiberglass molds. Using only newer molds produced recently, the details are very well defined. You can often actually count the number of rays in even the smallest of fins. All KSM molds were made from carefully selected fresh robust specimens with good proportions. Each fish was placed into an action pose prior to molding. This way the fish mount looks natural and alive. Many of our mounts were molded with the gills open, showing additional action. When making a mold, we pour gel coat directly on the fish surface. This way our molds pick up even the finest of details. Each mold can yield enough casts to produce an unlimited number of fish mounts.


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The XO-1.75 prototypes are currently under development, and the laptops will enter mass production this summer. Some touchscreen prototypes are being made as well, but the primary model will not have touch. Thanks to Armada 610 ARM processors and improved Pixel Qi screens, the 1.75 will draw roughly half the power of the 1.5, while keeping roughly the same form factor and most of the existing industrial design.
These will be our first models with ARM chips, which we plan to use in our tablet designs later this year. The 1.75 should be roughly $20 cheaper to manufacture, than the 1.5, but the real drop in cost will come for rural deployments, as a result of the lessened power requirements. Not quite in the human-powerable range yet, but getting there.
The XO-3 will have a larger 9.7″ screen when it comes out in 2012, and will shave off another significant fraction of power – up to another full Watt.


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Effective for Any Ability
Xebex Air Bikes resistance is controlled by the user, not the machine. You can control the intensity of your workout – The harder you push, pull and pedal, the more air you're moving and the greater the resistance. Cool-down and lower your heart rate by easing the intensity of your push, pull, and pedal stroke in order to decrease the resistance and amount of air moving.
Full-Body Workout
Pushing, Pulling, and Pedaling can all be done with a Xebex Air Bike. This activates muscles in your arms, chest, back, legs, and even your core for washboard abs! Quickly burn calories with a full-body workout where you control the intensity of your exercise regimen!
Comfortable and adjusts to fit various heights
Our 4-way adjustable seat allows you to adjust the seat up/down, and forward/back. Simply loosen the pop-pin and pull out to adjust the vertical distance from seat to pedal. Next, loosen the seat track lever to slide the seat closer or further away from the handlebars!
Easy Transport and Storage
Simply tilt the Xebex Air Bike forward and roll away using the 2 over-sized wheels from the front stabilizer
Built to Last
More robust than competitor Bikes and uses more durable moving parts. Forged Chro-Moly Cranks, Sealed Cartridge Bottom Bracket, and Sealed Ball-Bearing Cartridges at every joint. Xebex Air Bikes utilize the best technology in exercise bikes for a heavy-duty piece of equipment built to withstand anything you can throw at it!
Easily Measure Performance and Progress
Competition Ready: The Xebex Air Bike comes everything you're accustomed to and more! The Xebex Air Bike console measures distance, watts, speed, and calories with the identical formula to what was used in competitions. Our Large Console Display gives users an easy way to measure performance and track progress. On one screen, you can see 7 different key measurements: Calories Burned, Heart Rate, Watts, Speed, Total Distance, Time, Work/Rest Periods. Everything you need in one, easy-to-read console with the ability to setup Interval Training, Target Training, Heart-Rate Training, and more. Polar-Heart Rate Chest Belts are compatible.
The console also allows for switching between units of measurement: Meters or Miles and measures to the tenth of a Calorie so you know your exact progress. Our console is easier to use and more accurately reads changes in speed. We've also included the ability to SET or TARGET distance, calories, and time while the console counts down from your targeted goal so you know just how much longer to work for.
Setup Custom Interval Work, Rest, and Number of Rounds in less than 5 seconds. The Xebex Air Bike console measures distance, watts, speed, and calories with the identical formula to eading competitor models.
Easy Assembly
Xebex Air Bikes require minimal assembly of just 7 total parts: Front and Rear Stabilizers, Console Stem, Handlebars, Pedals, Seat Post and Seat are all that need to be installed. We include all the necessary tools, hardware, and clear, illustrated instructions. Allow 15-30 minutes to complete the job!
How does it compare to other Air Bikes?
The Xebex Air Bike features increased durability by using higher quality parts throughout the frame. We've reinforced weak points of other air bike models to create the most durable and robust bike on the market. The frame weighs more than comparable models which leads to more stability. Higher quality parts such as our Universal Ball Joints where the Handlebars connect to the Linkage Arms is one example of how Xebex Bikes are built more durable and longer-lasting!
We've also included a water bottle holder, an easy-to-read console that relays changes in speed more efficiently, and more robust handlebars.
– 104lb steel frame
– Heavy-Duty 24″ fan, 27″ with Fan Housing
– Sealed cartridge bottom bracket
– Heavier base and handles produce a more intense workout
– Increased arm range of motion
– Pedal arm uses sealed bearings – stays tighter over time
Large, Easy-to-Read Console/Programs
– Tracks Distance (Meter or Mile),
Time, Speed (KM or MI),
Calories, Watts, and HR
– Programmable Custom Interval Functions
(Work, Rest programs)
– Set Distance or Calories with countdown functionality
– Distance tracked in meters or thousandths of a mile (1000.0 = 1 mile)
– Rubber-Dipped handles
– 4-way adjustable seat
– Peg attachment foot rests
– Extra padding on seat
– Optional Pair of SPD Cleat Pedals: Toe cup and SPD clip-in design to take your w


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Here are the things I'll be doing at the upcoming Dragon*Con convention. I'm trying to get things together and have created Facebook events for them. I'm doing one live taping of Reality Break and then two of the three other panels are ones I suggested and am moderating. That's a little heavier responsibility load in terms of making the wheels go so I'm trying to get it together up front. For those 98% of you already on Facebook, feel free to RSVP via the events and spread them around, especially to your Dragon*Con goer friends.
Podcasting Track Kick Off!
Friday, September 4 at 1 PM, Hilton 204
Panelists: Dave Slusher, Scott Sigler, Len Peralta, Veronica Belmont, George Hrab and moderated by Swoopy
Join some of your favorite podcasters as we take the temperature of the Podcasting world, and talk about some of our best moments of the past year.
Podcasting Tips for Working Writers
Saturday, September 5 at 2:30 PM, Hilton 204
Panelists: Mur Lafferty, Dave Slusher, Michael Stackpole, Scott Sigler, Christiana Ellis, P.G. Holyfield
A discussion with authors and podcasters who have turned the art of the podcast novel into a formula for publishing success.
Reality Break – LIVE!
Sunday, September 6 at 10 PM, Hilton 204
Panelists: Dave Slusher, Keith R. A DeCandido
Come be in the audience for a live taping of the Reality Break podcast with author Keith R. A. DeCandido. He is currently the author of the Farscape comic books from Boom Studios. Keith has a bibliography longer than a yeti's arm and there is a good chance than everyone at Dragon*Con has read something he has written.
Social Media Overload
Monday, September 7 at 1 PM, Hilton 204
Panelists: Dave Slusher (What? I'll have to dragoon people to joine me if there are no others.)
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr – Are we still creating content or just floating along on the stream? Discuss the pros and cons of social networking as it pertains to podcasting.
All in all, that's a highly reasonable schedule. I've certainly done many more panels in a single convention. The biggest bummer about the way Dragon*Con is organized now is that there seems to be little or no overlap between programming tracks. I attended Dragon*Con as a science fiction guest every year from 1993 to 2000 and would love to be back on some of the SF panels again, but once I got slotted in as a Podcaster track guest that seemed to be it. I'm not a big enough fish to catch anyone's attention across tracks, I guess. I'm just happy to be going and doing this one more time.


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Torsion Coupler Insert, 30K Round Gooseneck
- Part #: OTP-GH-7082
- Description: 1 (One) 30K Sparten Series - Torsion Flex, 4" Round Gooseneck Coupler.
- Features
- Heavy Duty Rubber Torsion Flex Cords, Eliminates Shock Transfer
- No Airbag to Maintain, No Bearings to Crush or Wear Out, Virtually Maintenance Free
- Built-In Mechanical Tongue Weight Scale for Balanced Safe Loading
- Reduces Trailer and Content Fatigue
- Eliminates Most Surging, Bucking, and Chucking
- Increase the Life of the Electronics Found Throughout Your Truck and Trailer
- Increase Ride Quality
- Improve Overall Safety
- Increases Your Quality of Life, You Deserve a GEN-Y Torsion-Flex Hitch
- Powder Coated for a Tough Durable Finish Giving Longer Life and Increased Visual Appeal.
- Engineered using Solidworks the world's most recognized engineering software.
- Protected under Patent # 9,505,281 B1 & US D773,345S
- All GEN-Y products are rigorously tested and exceed the SAE-J684 Weight Testing Requirements. Never exceed recommended capacity on any trailer tow coupling or vehicle receiver hitch.
- 5 Year Warranty on All Moving Parts — Lifetime Guarantee on Rest of Components — Made in the USA
With Rubber Torsion-Flex Hitches only 10% of the trailer inertia transfers compared to 100% using a hard connection hitch giving you the ultimate control.
Ultimate Control
The tow vehicle and trailer track independently giving you greater control and added safety by reducing sway and trailer bounce.
Greatly increased braking control since all the weight on the tow vehicle and trailer is distributed evenly giving you increased positive contact when braking and maneuvering.
Safeguards Against Uncontrollable Road Conditions
Bumps, potholes, expansion joints, curves, hills, and other drivers can be a hazard, keeps you under control when confronted with these conditions.
Saves Gas and Tire Wear
The 90% smoother ride allows you to glide instead of bounce increasing gas mileage.
Saves You Money
Reduces trailer and content fatigue. Metal fatigue caused by traditional towing results in your trailer and its contents taking a beating. Products increase life and help hold value.
Arrive Alive
Reduces driver fatigue to help ensure everyone (family, friends, pets, horses, and livestock) arrives alive.


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Feature Lights
An area of outdoor lighting that is completely self-explanatory in terms of its title. Outdoor decorative lights are designed to embellish your garden, or exterior space, and whilst they may also incidentally be functional their main job is to stand or lie there and look pretty. Take globe lights, for example. They shed useful, diffuse light in a garden but they also create memorable atmosphere with their looks. They appear as small echoes of the moon, and you might very well find them soothing.
Exterior floor lamps are also increasingly common as our gardens become more and more accessible by night. These look just like your average shaded indoor floor lamp, except they carry a high Ingress Protection rating to signify their weatherproofing and they have heavier stands - often concrete. Some might be spiked so you can embed them into the ground. They look great on patios or areas of decking.
You might encounter LED planters among our range, which can be used to light a path as well as rather attractively showing off your potted plants. Other light forms such as LED rope lights and strips are incredibly flexible in their application - wrap them around trees, columns, handrails, trellises, or just about anywhere you can think of to add interest to your garden! They can be used to effectively highlight pathways, too.


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Since McCain's Convention CEO and one of his campaign's regional managers resigned when it came out that they had been lobbying for the government of Myanmar, I figured it was only a matter of time before more information about the clients of the many lobbyists who populate the McCain campaign began to come out. And lo! here's a rundown on some of them.
I'm going to concentrate on Charlie Black. He's generally described as McCain's chief political advisor. He was the chair of BKSH & Associates, a lobbying firm, until last month, when he announced he was stepping down to work on McCain's campaign fulltime. There's a good profile of him here:
""The Republican Party's quintessential company man," as one friend calls him, Mr. Black has worked in every Republican presidential campaign since 1972, and sometimes a couple each season, being diplomat enough to get along with both sides in some of the fiercest rivalries.In between, and often at the same time, he has parlayed his political connections to become one of Washington's most successful lobbyists, making him an embodiment of the city's permanent establishment.
Now 60, Mr. Black is easing Mr. McCain into his new role as standard bearer for a party that the senator has clashed with and even snubbed over the years. Mr. Black has done so in the quiet way that has made him such an enduring player in Washington."
Here's Ken Silverstein quoting an offline piece from Spy, which has a different take on Black's record:
"An indispensable read about Black's past–sadly not available online–was a wonderful 1992 piece by Art Levine published in Spy magazine, titled "Publicists of the Damned." (...) Back then Black was the lead partner at the lobbying firm called Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. (...)Spy reviewed the operations of a number of top beltway lobbying firms and ranked Black, Manafort as the "sleaziest" of the firms it surveyed, giving it a "blood-on-the-hands" rating of four. That was a full bloody hand more than the rating accorded to lobbyist Edward van Kloberg, whose clients included Saddam Hussein and Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania.
Black, Manafort's own clients at the time included Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire, one of the most kleptocratic rulers of all time, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, also known for stealing a few billion dollars, and the murderous Angolan rebels known as UNITA. "The well-compensated flacks at Black, Manafort stand at the pinnacle of organizational apologism," Spy noted. "Name a corrupt despot, and Black Manafort will name the account.""
Over the years, Black has represented some truly dreadful people. In what follows, I will leave aside domestic clients, like Blackwater, Philip Morris, and Chiquita (which pleaded guilty to paying Colombian terrorists last year.) I will also ignore Black's work on behalf of dictators who are bad but not truly horrific: for instance, Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo. I'm just going to focus on two groups: first, Black's work for people who used disinformation to get us into the Iraq war, and second, the truly horrible dictators Charlie Black represented.
(1) Chalabi and the Lincoln Group: According to this NYT piece, Black's firm "worked for Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress, as well as the Lincoln Group, hired by the Pentagon to generate positive stories about the Iraq war." (Though his work for Chalabi was actually paid for by, well, us: the US taxpayers.)
The Lincoln Group, as you might recall, was an amateurish group hired by the Pentagon to plant pro-American stories -- some true and some "deceptive" -- in the Iraqi press. My favorite of their proposals was "an anti-terrorist comedy based on "The Three Stooges."" For some unfathomable reason, that proposal was rejected.
Ahmed Chalabi, the snake who used disinformation to help convince the US to invade Iraq, and who has since come under suspicion of being an 'agent of influence' for Iran, is presumably familiar to our readers. Here's a 2003 article on Black's work for him:
"Consider BKSH & Associates, the firm run by well-known GOP strategist Charlie Black. Over the past four years, BKSH has been boosting the interests of the Iraqi National Congress, whose leader, Ahmed Chalabi, was a key anti-Saddam opponent and now sits on the newly formed Iraqi Governing Council. Besides helping the INC - which has enjoyed extensive backing from the Pentagon but is quite controversial at the State Department and the CIA - BKSH has started to help open doors for such U.S. companies as AT&T, Cummins Engine, and Fluor that are seeking business in Iraq."Due to our past representation of the INC," says Black, "we know and have worked with a lot of people who will be in the provisional government. We have a number of clients who are interested in doing business in Iraq." Black adds that his firm is "strongly considering" opening an office in Baghdad."
"BKSH had a special interest in Iraq. The firm was a key member of the coterie of talking heads, lobbyists, and politicians pushing for war in Iraq that centered around Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC), the anti-Saddam exile group, which was itself a BKSH client. (The lobbying firm provided the exiles with lobbying and media services; its staffers acted as the INC's spokesmen, brokered meetings and deals with Washington insiders, and arranged Chalabi's trips to the United States.)"
BKSH even won an award for its PR campaign on behalf of Chalabi and the invasion of Iraq:
"The last week of October 2003 had been particularly gory in Baghdad. Rockets tore into the Al-Rashid Hotel, where Paul Wolfowitz lay sleeping on a rare visit. Terrorists destroyed the International Red Cross compound, and then, on Wednesday, October 29, a land mine gutted a US Army Abrams tank outside Baghdad, killing two soldiers. That was the day BKSH and the Iraqi National Congress were honored for their work in the run-up to the war.The black-tie award ceremony took place far from the violence in Iraq, in London, where more than 1,000 of the public relations industry elite assembled in a ballroom at the luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel. PR Week hosted the event, its annual awards dinner for public relations companies. Burson-Marsteller, whose subsidiary BKSH had carried out the work, was named the winner in the public affairs category. The "Awards Supplement" of PR Week called BKSH's work a "solid, disciplined campaign that is totally deserving of this award." "Of particular importance," said the citation, "was positioning INC founder Dr. Ahmad Chalabi and other Iraqi opposition spokespeople as authoritative political leaders." BKSH "compiled intelligence reports, defector briefings, conferences and seminars.... The PR team also ran a contact-building programme, focusing on the European Union, Downing Street, the Foreign Office and MPs in the UK, matched to a US programme aimed at the White House, the Senate, Congress and the Pentagon."
The awards description does not mention that the funding came entirely from the US government, let alone that many of the campaign's claims turned out to be erroneous."
Minor extra: Black also helped arrange the bizarre coronation ceremony at the Capitol for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
(2) Truly horrible dictators: Those Black represented include: Ferdinand Marcos (the odious dictator of the Philippines), Mobutu Sese Seko (the odious dictator of Zaire), Ibrahim Babangida (the odious dictator of Nigeria), Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (the odious dictator of Equatorial Guinea), Mohamed Siad Barre (the odious dictator of Somalia), and, just to break the pattern, Jonas Savimbi (who plunged Angola into decades of immensely destructive civil war in an unsuccessful attempt to become its odious dictator.)
I'm saving Savimbi for a separate post. Here, some background on the others:
Mobutu Sese Seko: I take it Mobutu, the thuggish kleptocrat who devastated Zaire, needs no introduction. In case I'm wrong, here's a good NYT retrospective. Excerpt:
"Resplendent in his signature leopard-skin cap and carved wooden scepter topped with an eagle, Mr. Mobutu -- through his canny courtship of Western support, destabilization of his neighbors, systematic corruption and grandiose economic schemes -- left Zaire teetering on the brink of economic collapse. His cult of personality rose to such heights that for weeks at a time, Zaire's official press was forbidden to mention the name of any other Zairian than the President himself.Mr. Mobutu almost singlehandedly invented Zaire, even giving the country its name in replacement of the colonial name, Congo. But his personal appetite for luxury and wealth spawned a system of official corruption so rapacious that he leaves behind a country in ruin, where revenue from lucrative mines has been squandered or squirreled away in foreign bank accounts. Life in a vast country deprived of roads, health care, electricity, telephones and often education has reverted to a brutishness unknown since the 1940's."
(Note: the bank accounts turned out to have a lot less in them than people thought.)
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: Here's the short version:
"As vast offshore oil fields generate hundreds of millions of dollars for tiny Equatorial Guinea, there are few signs of the petroleum boom in the impoverished West African nation. Most of the population lives on about a dollar a day, and a U.S. State Department report found "little evidence that the country's oil wealth is being devoted to the public good." So where has the money gone?That has been declared a "state secret" by Equatorial Guinea's ruler, Brig. Gen. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. But the Guinean ambassador to the U.S. and other sources close to Obiang say the country's oil funds are held in an account at Riggs Bank in Washington. (...)
Equatorial Guinea's oil production has jumped from just 17,000 barrels per day in 1996 to a current rate of more than 220,000 barrels per day. As a result, the Bush administration has initiated a political thaw with the Obiang regime. In late 2001, President Bush authorized the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Equatorial Guinea, which had been closed six years earlier, in large part due to the country's horrific human rights record.
There's been little if any improvement since then on that issue."
And then there's this:
"State radio in the tiny west African state of Equatorial Guinea has hailed the nation's leader as "the country's God". (...)"He can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to hell because it is God himself, with whom he is in permanent contact, and who gives him this strength," a presidential aide announced on the show."
Note to self: even God needs a lobbyist. Isn't that special?
Ferdinand Marcos: Here I should probably just defer to dr ngo, who knows more about the Philippines than I ever will. (Especially since it turns out to be surprisingly hard to find a decent summary of Marcos' human rights record.) However, until dr ngo shows up to correct and/or amplify (as I hope he will):
Ferdinand Marcos was President of the Philippines from 1965 until 1986. He declared martial law in 1972, after which he ruled as a dictator. He was fantastically corrupt: Transparency International put him second on its list of most corrupt leaders, which is pretty impressive, given the competition. His human rights record was dreadful: one historian puts the number of extrajudicial killings under Marcos at 3,257, and the number of people tortured at 35,000; he was successfully sued for "the tortures and killings of nearly 10,000 Filipinos." You can read some of their stories here, or here, or here. Also:
"Marcos inflicted immeasurable damage on democratic values. He offered the Filipino people economic progress and national dignity, but the results were dictatorship, poverty, militarized politics and a politicized military, and greatly increased dependence on foreign governments and banks. His New Society was supposed to eliminate corruption, but when Marcos fled the country in 1986, his suitcases contained, according to a United States customs agent, jewels, luxury items, and twenty-four gold bricks. Estimates of Marcos's wealth ran from a low of US$3 billion to a high of US$30 billion, and even after his death in 1989, no one knew the true value of his estate, perhaps not even his widow.If Marcos had been merely corrupt, his legacy would have been bad enough, but he broke the spell of democracy. The long evolution of democratic institutions, unsatisfactory though it may have been in some ways, was interrupted. The political culture of democracy was violated. Ordinary Filipinos knew fear in the night. An entire generation came of age never once witnessing a genuine election or reading a free newspaper. Classes that graduated from the Philippine Military Academy were contemptuous of civilians and anticipated opportunities for influence and perhaps even wealth. Marcos's worst nightmare came true when Corazon Aquino used the power of popular opinion to bring him down."
While researching this, I found an email that Steve Clemons posted about Black's work for Marcos. In my experience, Steve Clemons' anonymous sources are usually quite reliable. Note that "Black Manafort" is Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly, a previous version of BKSH & Associates. The email reads, in part:
"During the final years of the Marcos regime, Black Manafort had the Marcos lobbying account.Matt [Freeman] was one of three guys servicing the account in the field.
US policy was undergoing a dramatic shift at the time. Secretary of State George Shultz had quietly persuaded Ronald Reagan that it was time to ditch the Marcos family -- and the Black Manafort retainer from the Marcos family had been hugely increased in an effort to turn this around.
The USG was discreetly funding the Marcos opposition (including the more sedate opposition group led by Cardinal Jaime Sin and the more radical NAMFREL).
One of Matt's tasks was to attempt to document these connections in hopes that they could be used to drive a wedge into Hill support for the administration policy shift.
It was a time of "battling flacks". Cory Aquino, widow of the opposition leader Benigno Aquino who had been murdered by a Marcos thug earlier that year, had retained none other than Mark Malloch Brown as her Washington lobbyist.
Mark and Matt were frequently in and out of the Philippines in those days, each developing sources and feeding material into the SFRC and the HFAC.
Dick Lugar proved central to this story. Shultz won Lugar's support for dropping the Marcos connection. . . provided Marcos could be ousted in an election.
Republican election specialist Eddie Mahe was retained by the USG to analyze and defeat the Marcos election-rigging schemes.
Meanwhile, Matt was among those helping the Marcos family to carry out such schemes."
Mohamed Siad Barre took control of Somalia in 1969, and remained in power until 1991. The NYT summarizes:
"In May 1988, fierce fighting broke out in the north between the Government and rebels who contended they had been discriminated against by the Siad Barre Government and were fighting for a more democratic Government.A report commissioned by the State Department and made public in September 1989 said the Somali Army "purposely murdered" at least 5,000 unarmed civilians over a 10-month period in the early phases. The Government denied the allegation.
More than 10,000 people were reported killed in the months that followed, with allegations that the Somali military had bombed towns and strafed fleeing residents.Amnesty International said in August 1988 that since 1981 the Government had used torture and "widespread arbitrary arrests, ill treatment and summary executions" of civilians suspected of collaborating with the rebels."
From the US Country Study of Somalia:
"Faced with shrinking popularity and an armed and organized domestic resistance, Siad Barre unleashed a reign of terror against the Majeerteen, the Hawiye, and the Isaaq, carried out by the Red Berets (Duub Cas), a dreaded elite unit recruited from among the president's Mareehaan clansmen. (...)In November 1986, the dreaded Red Berets unleashed a campaign of terror and intimidation on a frightened citizenry. Meanwhile, the ministries atrophied and the army's officer corps was purged of competent career officers on suspicion of insufficient loyalty to the president. In addition, ministers and bureaucrats plundered what was left of the national treasury after it had been repeatedly skimmed by the top family. (...)
The Red Berets systematically smashed the small reservoirs in the area around Galcaio so as to deny water to the Umar Mahamuud Majeerteen sublineages and their herds. In May and June 1979, more than 2,000 Umar Mahamuud, the Majeerteen sublineage of Colonel Ahmad, died of thirst in the waterless area northeast of Galcaio, Garoowe, and Jerriiban. In Galcaio, members of the Victory Pioneers, the urban militia notorious for harassing civilians, raped large numbers of Majeerteen women. In addition, the clan lost an estimated 50,000 camels, 10,000 cattle, and 100,000 sheep and goats. (...)
The military regime conducted savage reprisals against the Isaaq. The same methods were used as against the Majeerteen-- destruction of water wells and grazing grounds and raping of women. An estimated 5,000 Isaaq were killed between May 27 and the end of December 1988. About 4,000 died in the fighting, but 1,000, including women and children, were alleged to have been bayoneted to death. (...)
In the late 1980s, disaffection with the regime set in among the Hawiye who felt increasingly marginalized in the Siad Barre regime. From the town of Beledweyne in the central valley of the Shabeelle River to Buulobarde, to Giohar, and in Mogadishu, the clan was subjected to ruthless assault. Government atrocities inflicted on the Hawiye were considered comparable in scale to those against the Majeerteen and Isaaq. By undertaking this assault on the Hawiye, Siad Barre committed a fatal error. By the end of 1990, he still controlled the capital and adjacent regions but by alienating the Hawiye, Siad Barre turned his last stronghold into enemy territory.
Faced with saboteurs by day and sniper fire by night, Siad Barre ordered remaining units of the badly demoralized Red Berets to massacre civilians. By 1989 torture and murder became the order of the day in Mogadishu. On July 9, 1989, Somalia's Italian-born Roman Catholic bishop, Salvatore Colombo, was gunned down in his church in Mogadishu by an unknown assassin. The order to murder the bishop, an outspoken critic of the regime, was widely believed to have had come from the presidential palace.
On the heels of the bishop's murder came the infamous July 14 massacre, when the Red Berets slaughtered 450 Muslims demonstrating against the arrest of their spiritual leaders. More than 2,000 were seriously injured. On July 15, forty-seven people, mainly from the Isaaq clan, were taken to Jasiira Beach west of the city and summarily executed. The July massacres prompted a shift in United States policy as the United States began to distance itself from Siad Barre."
On reflection, that's enough for now. As I said, I had intended to save Savimbi for a subsequent post, and you can probably live without a description of Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria.
If you think about it, though, Black has represented a more than usually repellent group of dictators. Two of Transparency International's top three kleptocrats in recent history (Marcos and Mobutu); a self-proclaimed God; torturers, murderers, and even someone who deliberately destroys reservoirs in arid country, so people will die of thirst.
I was reminded recently that a couple of months ago, last time he was defending the number of lobbyists who work on his campaign, McCain said:
""These people have honorable records, and they're honorable people, and I'm proud to have them as part of my team," McCain told reporters following a town hall meeting in Indianapolis."
And in the debate at the Reagan Library, he said, as he often has: "I'll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep."
So judge away. Do you think that it's possible to be the lobbyist for Chalabi, Mobuto, Marcos, Obiang, and Siad Barre, not to mention Blackwater, Philip Morris, and so on, and still be an honorable person? If not, what do you think that the fact that this guy is one of McCain's closest advisors says about him?


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Yes Founding Guitarist Peter Banks Dead at 65
Pioneering British guitarist Peter Banks has died. Best known for his work as the original guitarist in the seminal progressive rock band Yes, the musician was a trailblazer in the progressive rock movement of the '70s that also spawned Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP and Jethro Tull. He passed away last Friday (March 8) at his home in London at the age of 65.
Banks took to music early after his father gave him an acoustic guitar. By 1965 he had joined future Yes bassist Chris Squire in a band called the Syn, a psychedelic rock ensemble that lasted until 1967, releasing two singles. Upon their breakup, Squire and Banks joined Mabel Greer's Toy Shop, which morphed into a new band with the addition of singer Jon Anderson, drummer Bill Bruford and keyboardist Tony Kaye.
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"I loved working with Peter on the many records I have produced over the years," former Yes member Billy Sherwood says in a press statement. "He always delivered amazing stuff, creative, inspires and always with that classic original Yes flavor that came with his playing. He will be missed by me and many, many other fans of his music and playing."


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